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This Day in Minnesota History

January 26, 1948

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Sweden's Prince Bertil unveils a tablet to Jacob Fahlstrom, first Swede in Minnesota. A fur trader who arrived in Minnesota in the 1820s, Fahlstrom settled near Afton and died there in 1859. The plaque is at the intersection of Robert Street and Kellogg Boulevard in St. Paul.

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